We headed in from the north side and had to skirt around the mountain a little bit to get where we wanted to be. Climbed up the snow covered fact up to about 8500 feet until it started getting late and skied down from there. It was awesome. Really steep and fast. Some of the best turns I've ever made.

Left Corvallis at 9:30 PM to meet dkantola in Salem, and drove to the Pole Crk. TH. 16 tough, but fun hours from car to summit to car. It took almost as long to descend as it did to ascend due to the horrible rock and gendarme's on the S ridge and SE spur......and the rapping......and setting up pro on the traverse.

Every rock on that mountain moved except for some decent rock on the summit pinnacle! Protection on the traverse is nice, as is rapping the down climb in the Bowling Alley.

Passed Cluck on our way back on the traverse with out knowing it. Nervous moment to hear some guys, not with Cluck, say they were clipping on to our rope for an anchor just as I was going on belay.....what?

Not the Ugly Sister, just the tougher Sister. Not a bad view on any of the girls!

Back to Corvallis and in bed by 11PM capping off a stretch of 40 hours of eyes open.....minus an hour nap.

Good feeling to climb all three, and to finish with such a great climb, very rewarding. Thanks David.

Quite a busy day on North Sister. Passed a party of 2 coming across the traverse on their way back from the summit (our apologies for our cluster f*#@ fixed line) and ended up summitting in a loosely knit alliance of 3 parties of 2.

Traverse was hard snow, maybe a bit steeper than 45 degrees and merited protection. Those without crampons beware.

Bowling alley was benign. All rock, easy 4th class scramble with only enjoyable climbing on the day being the last pitch up to the North horn.

In general, happy to have ticked off the 3rd Sister, but climb was pretty misearable and I'm unlikely to be back for anything other than an earlier season snow route.

Went up the north face route with minimal difficulties. The top rock (slag?) climb was sketchy, but not diffcult. The descent was a nightmare: we decided to avoid downclimbing the rotten north side and went down the bowling alley. We then tried to traverse north under the west side to descend the north face, but were turned back by nightmare dinner-plate filled, loose, steep chutes under the northern pinnacles. So we descended the SE ridge and then humped back to pick up our gear on the north side --- lots of miles, 19hrs of work that day. Pizza in Sisters never tasted so good!

More difficult than it looks. The rock is VERY loose (even by cascade volcano standards). We felt it was necessary to rappel to pass the small 45 degree ice traverse near the summit. Route finding was a bit challenging to find the last gulley leading to the summit, but the views were awsome. Climbed with my dad, and it was the last climb needed to finish all of the cascade volcanoes for him!!

Start of Sister Marathon. Left car at Pole creek at 5am. Up to East face. Climbed the first rock rib to the right of the Villard glacier to join the N ridge at its junction with the NE ridge. One fun 5.4 cliff band, lots of 4th class death scree. Traversing the bowling alley face to get to the summit pinnacle and the south ridge = 2 hours of sphincter clinching 4th and low 5th rubble traversing, but the descent to Middle Sister and the climb on it was much mellower. Bailed to go swimming in Camp Lake instead of continuing on the south sister. Promptly relocated to North Cascades granite.

Great climb over a three day weekend. We ended up doing the Northeast Shoulder on Prouty Pinnacle(Picture in Oregon High in the front of the Three Sisters/Broken Top Section) to top off the day. Marginal protection from the col up to the defined belay ledge. Nice exposed move out of the overhang onto some dirty 4th class scramble to the summit. Our party of five all did the route on a fixed line, both up and down the pinnacle. The descent down the ridge was uneventful except for some pretty strong wind gusts that coated my contacts with a fine grit.

Spent another night at Mini Scott Springs before hiking out the following day.